Improvement in mucilage-holders



A. B. SWIFT.

Mucilage-Hulders. i 910.150,98@ Patented May 19,1874.y

NTTED TATES I ALBERT E. SWIFT, on TAUNTON, ASSIGNOE To OHAELES A. SHAW, or BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS. f

IMPROVEMENT IN MUClLAGE-HOLDERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 150,986, dated May 19, 1874; application led April 7, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT B. SWIFT, of Taunton, in the county of Bristol and State of Massachusetts, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Mucilage- Bottles, of whichlthe following is a description sufficiently full, clear, and exact to enable any person skilled in the art or science to which my invention appertains to make and use the sa-me, reference bein g had to the accompanying drawing, forming a part of this speciication, in which- Figure l is a side elevation of my improved bottle, and Fig. 2 a plan of the top with the cover removed.

Like letters refer to like parts in the differ-` ent gures of the drawing.

My invention relates more especially to that class of mncilage-bottles which are provided with brushes for applying the mucilage, and

consists in a clearer of novel construction' point. In Fig. 2, E is the clearer, consisting of a piece of wire bent so as to have t-he wide opening c and narrow spring c, as shown. This wire is inserted through the neck of the bottle and passed, by any convenient means, into the interior recess or groove opposite the boss D, in such a manner as to be supported thereby horizontally across the body of the bottle, as shown by the dotted lines E, Fig. l.

lThe wire, when bent to .form a clearer, as described, also forms a sprin g, which acts expansively against the sides of the bottle with Sufficient force to prevent itself from accidentally falling out of the recess or groove vwhen once inserted therein, and also to prevent the brush from displacing it.

From the foregoing, the nature and operation of my invention will be readily obvious to all conversant with such matters.

It is wellknown that in the use of ordinary mucilage-bottles a greater quantity of mucilage is frequently taken up on the brush than is required for use, the surplus being scraped oft' by pressing the brush against the interior of the neck of the bottle as it 4is Withdrawn-an operation which soon clogs straight rod 01 bar spanning the bottle, and

supported by interior niches or recesses, and therefore do not claim the same broadly, such aclearer operating upon but -one side of the brush at a time, thus necessitating several movements of thc same to free it of its surplus mucilage. u

My invention is designed to obviate these difficulties, and to this end I provide the boti tle with the clearer E, constructed and arranged as described. The brush is passed into the body of the bottle through the wide opening a, and Withdrawn through the narrow opening c, the sides a" of the clearer coming into contact with the brush as it is raised, so as to remove thesurplus mucilage, in a man ner which will be readily obvious. The large opening c permits the brush to be passed into the bottle readily, when a slight lateral moveJ ment is all that is required to bring it into the opening c and remove the surplus mucilage from one edge and two of its sides at the same time as it is withdrawn.

For these reasons I prefer a clearer formed as shown in Fig. 2, although it may be made V-shaped, and in a variety of other forms, without departing from the spirit of my in vention, the distinguishing feature of which is a clearer so constructed and arranged as to permit the brush to be passed into the bot tlc-freely, and which clears more than one side ofthe brush at a time while being withdrawn. The groove or'recess may be formed in the neck or nearer the top of the bottle, and need not extend entirely around it, and

more than'one may be employed, if desired, both sides of the brush at the sametime, and this form of construction affording a very in the Wide opening a for the introduction of expensive means of providing the bottle with the brush into the bott-le, substantially as a convenient and effective clearer. specified.

Having thus described my invention7 what I ALBERT B. SWIFT. I claim is- Witnesses:

In a mueilage-bottle, the clearer E, hav PHILIP A. Rions,

ing a narrow opening, c, arranged to clear HELEN E. METOALF. 

